I was born and raised in a fishing town and saw the devastation that happened as a result of the lack of planning for fisheries. Half of my class in school were from fishermen's families and they were all poor. There was no market for or interest in their product. Fish was seen as a penance to be eaten on Friday in the community, and it would be mad to eat it at any other time. My image of the Dingle fishing industry then was seeing fishermen coming back in from the sea for days in all weathers and dealing with a very poor market.